Chapter 57

For the next period of time, Li Youyi practiced only the move "Taiyi Opening the Sea" every day, searching for the heroic momentum that seemed to be able to split the sea with one sword when fighting Yao Zhengsheng.

Master Can said that it was "Heavenly Dao Law Integration."

Li Youyi practiced hundreds of swords every day.

Every sword was done with all his might, and he stopped only when his physical strength and magic power were exhausted to the limit. He tried again and again, and realized a little bit each time.

After thousands of swords, although he still couldn't achieve Heavenly Dao Law Integration at will. But in the last few days, he finally managed to fit in one or two swords every day.

"Practicing only like this is useless. You have to fight, you have to hone, you have to have life-and-death clashes with experts. Otherwise, it will take you years of effort to succeed." This was Master Can's original words.

When Master Can said this, his heart was filled with mixed feelings.

Because when his master said the same thing back then, the time he said later was "Otherwise, it will take you decades of effort to succeed." After all, who could believe that Li Youyi had practiced like this for half a month and could actually actively capture the mystery of the realm of law integration, it was just that the success rate was still very low.

In the morning and evening, at the turn of day and night, Li Youyi, Cai Yutong, and Qin Ke followed the senior of the spirit tablet to practice spirit god mental power and perceive spirit light.

At the same time, every one or two days, Li Youyi would take Zhao Zhizhuo to the inn to ask the senior expert for help in reshaping the spring eye.

Time flew by, and twenty-two days had passed since the attack on Shenlong Street.

Zhao Zhizhuo wore a bamboo hat, walked out of the inn, saw Li Youyi waiting under the shade of a tree across the street, and walked quickly across the street.

"How is it? Did the reshaping of the eighth spring succeed?" Li Youyi asked with a smile.

Zhao Zhizhuo pulled Li Youyi to walk along the river to a quiet place, then took off his bamboo hat, revealing a ruddy, full-spirited, ancient face, with uncontrollable excitement in his eyes.

He bowed with his hands cupped.

Li Youyi said, "Don't do this! Since the eight springs are reshaped and you have returned to the peak of the Spring-Gushing Realm, remember to pay me back for the spring liquid I bought. It was a total of ninety-three drops, ninety-three thousand silver coins, I'll wipe out the fraction for you, let's make it ninety thousand."

"Spring liquid is spring liquid, but that senior was willing to help me reshape the spring eye because of Brother Li's face. This grace of rebirth is something I'm afraid I can't repay in a lifetime."

After Zhao Zhizhuo bowed stubbornly, he said, "Don't wipe out the fraction, I'll round it up to one hundred thousand silver coins. I'll write an IOU!"

"One hundred thousand, that's what you said. I won't be polite to you!" Li Youyi said.

Zhao Zhizhuo was in a great mood and laughed, "Haha, don't be polite. With my current cultivation base, it shouldn't take me many years to earn one hundred thousand silver coins."

After looking at each other and laughing.

Li Youyi asked Zhao Zhizhuo to wait here, claiming that he wanted to say goodbye to the senior, returned to the inn briefly to put the stone coffin into the Evil Camel Bell, and the two hurried toward the city gate.

The excitement on Zhao Zhizhuo gradually passed, and he said seriously, "A month is almost up, what does Brother Li think? In fact, entering the Daoist academy is really a very good path. Almost all the experts of the Li Zu have practiced in it for a period of time."

Half a month ago, the Young Patriarch Cang Li went to Li Youyi and their house to inform them that they didn't need to worry about safety within a month. At the same time, he invited him, Cai Yutong, and Zhao Meng to join the Cang Li clan school or compete for a spot in the Li Zu Daoist Academy.

Li Youyi had already made up his mind, "Don't worry, I will personally go to the clan school in the next few days to pay respects and thank Senior Jia Shou, and I will make a decision then. By the way, I heard that repairing the Qi Sea is much harder than reshaping the spring eye, and it seems that blood crystals are needed."

Zhao Zhizhuo didn't dare to think about returning to the Five Seas Realm at all. Being able to have an eight-spring cultivation base was already very satisfying, so his mentality was extremely relaxed, and he talked freely, "The five seas of the Five Seas Realm refer to the five lung lobes in the human body. To open a Qi Sea, you must use magic power to repeatedly wash and refine a lung lobe, and then after reaching the critical point, a sea of the inner world will be born."

"Back then, all five of my lung lobes were pierced, and all five inner world seas were withered and shrunken. The blood crystals you mentioned can only repair the lung lobes. If you want to support the inner world sea again, you either have to take the Five Seas Pill and try your luck, or only legendary space magic tools can do it."

Li Youyi didn't know if the Evil Camel Bell counted as a space magic tool, so he could only listen to Zhao Zhizhuo continue.

"Five Seas Pills are too hard to get now. The Cang Li tribe is seriously short of them, and every pill is exchanged for a large number of exotic coffins. My situation is slim, and taking it might just be a waste."

"Being able to recover to eight springs, I am already very content, so I won't make it difficult for the Young Patriarch and the Patriarchs."

"I can only be like this, but Brother Li, you are different. If you marry the Fourth Young Lady, you will definitely have a bright future. Old Zhao, with my eight-spring cultivation, should be qualified to guard the door and drive for you, right?"

Li Youyi smiled, "If I don't marry her, will my future be dim?"

Zhao Zhizhuo just joked and didn't mention it again, "Should we go find Yao Zhengsheng, capture him, and take him to see the Young Patriarch or Jia Shou?"

Clearly, after recovering to eight springs, Zhao Zhizhuo's confidence also recovered a lot.

Li Youyi put away his smile, "Yao Zhengsheng is just a knife. If we take him down, can we topple Yang Yun? Don't forget the friendship between the Cang Li tribe and the Yang clan. Yang Yun is a direct descendant of the Yang clan, an eight-spring talent. What are we in the Cang Li tribe?"

Zhao Zhizhuo was silent for a long time, and said faintly, "Yang Yun is thinking about the Fourth Young Lady, and also thinking about the magic tool in Brother Li's hand, and almost caused us to die. I will plan a little bit and try a secret assassination."

Li Youyi was startled. He didn't expect Old Zhao to become so tough all of a sudden, and hurriedly said, "Don't mess around. Behind the Yang clan is the Sui Sect. Not to mention those old guys, just provoking Yang Qingxi is enough for us to drink a pot."

It was already April, and the weather was gradually becoming hot.

The pedestrians on the street were dressed much cooler.

The two walked out of the city gate, crossed the wooden gate bridge more than ten zhang long, and walked home along the stone road by the moat.

The stone road was five zhang wide, and on the other side was the suburban area that could not be seen at a glance. The long stone steps under the eaves were filled with children wearing straw sandals and ragged clothes.

They were all about five or six years old, sallow and thin, as if they had walked a long way, their feet were worn out, and there was a thick layer of dust on their faces.

There were nearly a hundred people, as if they were sitting there resting temporarily.

Li Youyi walked all the way, looking at these children. Under the eaves opposite, pairs of round eyes were also staring at him and Zhao Zhizhuo.

"Why are there so many children?" Li Youyi felt it was abnormal.

Zhao Zhizhuo was not surprised and said calmly, "If you observe carefully, they are almost all twins."

Li Youyi did discover this point; there were always two children who looked extremely similar, and only a very few were alone.

Why is the proportion of twins so high?

It's too weird!

Zhao Zhizhuo said, "They are Rice People, the rice of water rice."

"What do you mean?" Li Youyi was very puzzled.

Zhao Zhizhuo said, "Have you heard of Benevolent Rice?"

Li Youyi shook his head.

"Benevolent Rice, also known as Human Rice."

"Benevolent, it is both the benevolent of benevolence and the kernel of fruit kernel."

"Benevolent Rice originally came from the depths of the Realm of the Dead. It is the food of some mysterious existences in the world of the dead, and it was only later introduced into the habitat."

"An ear of rice can grow several, or even a dozen fetuses, all in even numbers. Those that grow on the left and right sides of the ear of rice look extremely similar, just like twins."

"I heard that in those provinces outside, all forces have long begun to plant Benevolent Rice on a large scale."

"First, select talented people with extraordinary talents from them and cultivate them into dead soldiers. Second, labor can explode in a short time. Third... people are a kind of resource and commodity. Trading Rice People will not have too many disputes, and no one will support them."

"I heard that some brutal rebel armies even use Rice People to feed exotic beast mounts."

"On the Lizhou side, several old patriarchs of the Li Zu strongly opposed the planting of Benevolent Rice at that time, thinking that it hurt human ethics. They also believed that as time went on, the proportion of Rice People would rise, which would cause uncontrollable turmoil."

"But as far as I know, there are still people in the clan who are secretly planting in the Mangshan mountain range."

While Li Youyi was amazed, his mood was very heavy. The existence of Rice People will definitely cause many human problems. Looking at the children sitting on the street again, he couldn't help but feel some sympathy and pity.

They have no parents.

Even without parents, who in the world would really care about them?

Not to mention caring about whether they are happy or not, I'm afraid no one cares about their life or death.

"A-Yin, you have to wear these shoes well, otherwise your feet will be worn out. Bear with it a little longer, we will be there soon..."

A woman wearing white lay Buddhist clothes squatted on the ground, tying straw rope shoelaces for a little Rice Person girl. Her voice was both pleasant and gentle, like a breeze in summer, making people unable to forget it after hearing it once.

After tying it, she stood up.

Her posture was very tall.

The lay Buddhist clothes were wide, and one could only see that her hands were long and her legs were long.

On her right wrist was a string of red prayer beads, as red as if they were condensed from blood. The white-clothed lay Buddhist noticed Li Youyi's gaze, turned her face, smiled and nodded at him, and whispered a Buddha name: "Amitabha!"

Li Youyi naturally heard this Buddha name clearly. He was stunned at first, and then a stormy sea was set off in his heart.

This is not on Earth!

Does this world also have Amitabha?

Amitabha, also known as the "Buddha of Infinite Light," is the leader of the Western Paradise in mythology and legends.

It was hard to meet a proper Buddhist practitioner, and Li Youyi was thinking about whether to go up and ask for advice, but the other party walked over first.

The white-clothed lay Buddhist was in her twenties, with sallow skin, an average appearance, and slightly high cheekbones.

After she bowed respectfully, she used that pleasant and gentle tone: "The benefactor looks like he has a compassionate heart, with a soft light of pity for the world in his eyes. Can this poor nun boldly ask for a bowl of vegetarian food?"

Although Li Youyi valued silver coins very much, what is a bowl of vegetarian food worth? After returning the bow, he said, "Don't just have a bowl of vegetarian food! Bring all the children, I feel they are starving."

(End of chapter)